The Sublime in Modern Philosophy

The Sublime in Modern Philosophy
Author: Emily Brady
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-08-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107276268

In The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature, Emily Brady takes a fresh look at the sublime and shows why it endures as a meaningful concept in contemporary philosophy. In a reassessment of historical approaches, the first part of the book identifies the scope and value of the sublime in eighteenth-century philosophy (with a focus on Kant), nineteenth-century philosophy and Romanticism, and early wilderness aesthetics. The second part examines the sublime's contemporary significance through its relationship to the arts; its position with respect to other aesthetic categories involving mixed or negative emotions, such as tragedy; and its place in environmental aesthetics and ethics. Far from being an outmoded concept, Brady argues that the sublime is a distinctive aesthetic category which reveals an important, if sometimes challenging, aesthetic-moral relationship with the natural world.

Sublime Nature

Sublime Nature
Author: Cristina Mittermeier
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2014
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1426213018

A photograph collection explores the variations of natural landscapes, plants, and animals and is complemented by perspectives on humanity's visceral connections to the natural universe.

Nature's Sublime

Nature's Sublime
Author: Robert S. Corrington
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2013
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0739182137

Nature's Sublime uses a radical new form of phenomenology to probe into the deepest traits of the human process in its individual, social, religious, and aesthetic dimensions. Starting with the selving process the essay describes the role of signs and symbols in intra and interpersonal communication. At the heart of the human use of signs is a creative tension between religions symbols and the novel symbols created in the various arts. A contrast is made between natural communities, which flatten out and reject novel forms of semiosis, and communities of interpretation, which welcomes creative and enriched signs and symbols. The normative claim is made that religious sign/symbol systems have a tendency toward tribalism and violence, while the various spheres of the aesthetic are comparatively non-tribal, or even deliberatively anti-tribal. The concept/experience of beauty and the sublime is meant to replace that of religious revelation. The sublime is not merely an internal mode of attunement, contra Kant, but comes from the very depths of nature in the potencies of nature naturing.

The Sublime

The Sublime
Author: Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2012-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521143675

This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of different theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on 'the sublime'.

The Sublime

The Sublime
Author: Philip Shaw
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2007-01-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134493185

Often labelled as ‘indescribable’, the sublime is a term that has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists. Usually related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. Offering historical overviews and explanations, Philip Shaw looks at: the legacy of the earliest, classical theories of the sublime through the romantic to the postmodern and avant-garde sublimity the major theorists of the sublime such as Kant, Burke, Lyotard, Derrida, Lacan and Zizek, offering critical introductions to each the significance of the concept through a range of literary readings including the Old and New testaments, Homer, Milton and writing from the romantic era how the concept of the sublime has affected other art forms such as painting and film, from abstract expressionism to David Lynch’s neo-noir. This remarkably clear study of what is, in essence, a term which evades definition, is essential reading for students of literature, critical and cultural theory.

Nature and the Victorian Imagination

Nature and the Victorian Imagination
Author: U. C. Knoepflmacher
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 788
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520340159

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

The Sublime in Antiquity

The Sublime in Antiquity
Author: James I. Porter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 713
Release: 2016-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107037476

Detailed new account of the historical emergence and conceptual reach of the sublime both before and after Longinus.